China's Community O2O Market has Great Potential

The development of community businesses and popularized mobile payment will continue to boost China’s citywide020 market.The report'Research on Citywide020 and Community020 Markets'recently released by Roland Berger analyzes China’s market potential,the prospects of some market segments and corporate development strategies.

The Study of Business Model for Cross-Border E-Commerce

The purpose of this study is to explore the business model for a cross-border watch company in the virtual market.The virtual market in this research focuses on mobile app devices and social communities.In the e-commerce market,the company uses community marketing and cross-border e-commerce to enhance its merchandise sales.In-depth interviews are applied to e-commerce platform experts.The findings suggest that the successful business model includes a clear brand positioning,exposure to social media channels,enhance of the webpage experience,and optimization of global cross-border e-commerce purchasing platform.

A Hybrid Agent-based Model Predictive Control Scheme for Smart Community Energy System with Uncertain DGs and Loads

A multi-agent consensus-based market scheme is proposed for the cooperation of community and multiple microgrids(MGs)in a distributed,economic and hierarchal man-ner.The proposed community-based market framework with frequency regulation(FR)market is formulated as a two-level scheduling problem:the global decision-making process of community agent(CA)to participate in the FR market and the interaction and control process of local MGs to achieve collaboration in response to the global target with efficient pricing rules.Specifically,the model predictive control(MPC)is integrated with the consensus-based theory to allow MG to obtain an economic and reliable dispatch in the presence of uncertainties of distributed generators and loads.Thanks to the distributed nature of the proposed scheme,its robustness to communication issues has been strengthened and a win-win situation for all energy stakeholders can be achieved.The robustness of the proposed scheme is investigated in various conditions,including different implementation strategies,communication topologies,and the level of uncertainties.

Another look at social innovation:From community-For community

Social innovation(SI)continues to raise interest among scholars and policymakers,as a potential panacea for social disenfranchisement and civic dysfunction.What is troubling is diverse perspectives of SI abound,creating inconsistencies in methodological approaches which confound theory development.This paper clarifies that discussion by considering the locus of initiation and locus of benefit as informing characteristics that differentiate grounded social innovation from other types of well-recognized socially beneficent endeavors.The notion of‘from community e for community’is presented to aid understanding of the unique nature of authentically grounded social innovation.This paper is significant as it presents a practical approach to help researchers and practitioners consider where opportunities for targeted policy support,institutional involvement,and agency action can aid community development and wellbeing.